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From the position of the International Space Station, it's not always easy to consider the implications of gravity as a continuum, but society meetings like the recent American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) in Cleveland help bring that into focus. Gravity isn't just on or off, and it can be easy to forget that the space station is not the only place to go if you need a little microgravity.
Solutions for simulated microgravity like High Aspect Ratio Vessels (HARVs), clinostats and random positioning machines exist to confuse the gravity vector. Magnetic levitation can balance the gravitational force for small, water-containing objects. Short durations of 2-6 seconds can be achieved through drop tower experiments. Up to 20 seconds of microgravity can be accessed through parabolic flight, and new commercial and sounding rockets can deliver 2-6 minutes of microgravity exposure. These methods provide the tools to explore various levels of microgravity, and when you add in the laboratory centrifuge, we can even explore the effects of hypergravity.
Dr. Mark Weislogel's opening talk at ASGSR gave us great insights into the behaviors of fluids and fluid/surface interactions that you can achieve in just two seconds of microgravity. Non-intuitive behaviors that provide the building blocks for ideas, inventions, and for applications that need to be proven, need exposure to the long-duration microgravity environment on the space station. In the realm of space biology, we see genetic changes – differential gene expression – that occur in the first few seconds of exposure to microgravity, yet comparisons between long-duration space station exposure and simulated or short-duration micro-gravity exposure show some of these changes overlap and some do not. Clearly there is more going on here that we do not understand at this time.
To be successful interplanetary explorers, we need to be able to know what will happen to our physiology and systems as we transition from one to zero to 1/6 or 1/3 Gs, and back again. Knowledge of gravity as a continuum is a must. On the ground, we can explore aspects of this through magnetic levitation and centrifugation. Hypergravity studies on the ground are pointing
to interesting effects that we may need investigate further in microgravity, like glucose metabolism effects.
A healthy research community is using all of these tools to investigate gravity and better prepare us to make the most of our space station research. Our success in helping humanity explore the solar system is built on their research successes, not only in space but in research labs across the world.
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Natural World on BBC Two is a multi award winning nature documentary series. It comprises of a series of documentary films with a nature theme on anything to do with wildlife and previous film topics have included everything from plankton to elephants. Natural World has a strong conservation message and the films are made by independent filmmakers across all corners of the world, working under the Natural World umbrella.
Many of the films take months to make as the subjects' life cycles and migration patterns are followed and the show is particularly known for the high quality filming. It is broadcast in HD so this can be seen very clearly.
Sir David Attenborough narrates many of the films and has been quoted as saying that Natural World is the best natural history programme in the world and the one with the most distinguished record.
This flagship programme had its origins in the earlier series "The World About Us" commissioned by David Attenborough in 1967 and at the time the controller of BBC Two. The format of the show was for 50 minutes documentaries on a wide range of natural and geographic topics but in 1983, the programme was renamed at The Natural World and the focus switched to wildlife issues. The programme's title was further changed in 2003 when the "The" was dropped.
Since 1983, there have been 32 series of Natural World (and The Natural World) and much of the series is available to buy in CD format. You can also watch the latest episodes of Natural World via your iplayer.co.uk.
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I have a GRX-RS232 connected to a GRX-3106-CE and to a PC.
I have a little C# test program running on the PC that's communicating correctly in so much as I can send and receive data from the control unit.
If I send a :G request to get a list of Scenes and Control units it returns something like
~:ss MM2MMMMM 1 OK
meaning Controller 3(or C in my case) is currently on Scene 2
however whenever I send a command to try and set a scene on the unit like
nothing appears to happen on the 3106, although I do get an OK message back from the unit as if the command was successful i.e.~1 OK
On the GRX-RS232 I have DIP switches 6 and 7 set to on and I get data back each time a button is pressed on the GRX-3106
I wanted to know if the 3106 scenes just cannot be set by the GRX-RS232 and if this only works with the 3500 models?
Can someone clarify exactly which models of Grafik Eye can have their scenes set by the GRX-RS232 unit?
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Ian Whitt grew up in Hattiesburg, MS about an hour away from the Gulf Coast. He first discovered glass blowing on a family vacation to Hawaii. "From the first second I saw glass blowing I was hooked, I was fascinated with the way the glass flowed and moved, it almost seemed to be alive." Ian then began taking introductory glass workshops at the New Orleans School of Glassworks and Printmaking for a year. The Glass Art Society held their annual conference in New Orleans that same year and for the first time Ian was exposed to huge glass pieces being made by large teams of glass workers. Ian attributes this one weekend as the pivotal turning point where glass became his main focus and took over his life.
Ian received a BFA from the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Smithville, TN. He has worked for various glass artists around the Penland, NC and Asheville areas and has completed multiple private commissions for collectors all over the Southeast. He has recently moved from the island of Martha's Vineyard, MA where he worked for Martha's Vineyard Glassworks to the San Francisco Bay Area in California where he freelances as a production glass assistant where his work continues to focus on the fluidity and aqueous nature of molten glass.


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Disneyland Resort celebrates the holidays in Latin-style with "Disney ¡Viva Navidad!". The grand finale is a commemoration of the Three Kings Day/Día de Reyes from Jan. 3-6, 2014.
As we shared with you when the ¡Viva Navidad! celebrations started last month, we've been extremely excited by the way our culture is being interpreted for our kids to immerse themselves in it. From the fabulous Street Party with Mojiganga puppets, mariachi and samba music, folkloric dancers and the Three Caballeros and Mickey and Minnie in festive attire, to the Latin-inspried food, shows and crafts for kids.
For Día de Reyes, Paradise Pier at Disney's California Adventure Park invites guest to come and celebrate this special celebration observed mainly by Catholics, but that has become a traditional celebration across Latin America and carried on by Latinos around the world.
Kids will find booths for face painting, arts, crafts and to take special pictures con Melchor, Gaspar y Baltazar.
The Three Caballeros go all out to celebrate Disney ¡Viva Navidad! and kids can have fun decorating these special crowns.
The menu for the celebration takes on some of the favorite Latin dishes. We all raved about the pozole and you can check out how to make it in this video.
We interview Susana Tubert, one of the Disney creatives behind the whole ¡Viva Navidad! concept, to tell us more about how families can celebrate el Día de Reyes Magos at Disneyland Resort.
We also got to chat with Cristian León, Disneyland Resort spokesperson, with Micky, Minnie, a giant mojiganga and folkloric dancers adding the fiesta to our video.
For more videos, pictures and information on Disney's ¡Viva Navidad! celebration, check out Disneyland.com/Holidays and our full coverage below:
Disneyland's Pozole Recipe for Día de Reyes Magos
Disney's ¡Viva Navidad! Street Party Celebrates Latino Culture and Language
Sneek Peek at Disney's ¡Viva Navidad! Street Fiesta
La Navidad is Coming to Disneyland Resort: Disney ¡Viva Navidad!
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New research has shown that a virus known to cause disease in farmed Atlantic and Pacific salmon may cause a related disease in wild B.C. chinook salmon.
The results of a study by the Pacific Salmon Foundation show strong evidence that wild chinook is at risk of being exposed to high levels picscine orthoreovirus (PRV), a virus causing heart and skeletal muscle inflammation disease (HSMI) in farmed Atlantic salmon.
"These findings add to the existing concerns about the potential impacts of open net salmon farming on wild Pacific salmon off the coast of B.C.," said Dr. Brian Riddell, president and CEO of the Pacific Salmon Foundation, in a press release.
Decline in wild salmon stocks on the West Coast of Canada has lead to commercial and recreational fishing closures. On May 8, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans closed fishing to recreational anglers on the Skeena and Nass rivers on the North Coast. More restrictions or possible closures are expected to be announced in June for the commercial industry, and for First Nations food, ceremonial and social fishing.
READ MORE: Salmon closures a devastating blow to North Coast business
The Pacific Salmon Foundation estimates a high prevalence of PRV — up to 75 per cent — in net pen salmon. Some strains of the virus have been associated with jaundice-related diseases in Pacific salmon, but for the first time new research shows the PRV strain that causes HSMI has been found in B.C. wild salmon. The study found this particular strain of PRV was related to the development of jaundice and anemia in chinook salmon.
"This research confirms our worries that migrating juvenile wild Pacific salmon are vulnerable to diseases transmitted from open net-pen fish farms. Disease transmission could be the additional stressor that tips the scales for some wild salmon populations," said Jay Ritchlin, David Suzuki Foundation director-general for B.C. and Western Canada.
READ MORE: DFO contemplating sweeping North Coast salmon fishery closure
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Crowds out to greet 'Moonshiners' at store opening
Published 12:00 am Saturday, March 9, 2013
SALISBURY — Traditionally, moonshiners kept a low profile when selling illicit whiskey in the rural South.
You'd have a hard enough time catching one, let alone asking for his autograph.
Saturday, four men from the Discovery Channel's "Moonshiners" TV show made the trip from near Danville, Va., for an appearance at the grand opening of Salisbury Power Equipment on South Main Street.
Shelby Smith, wife of cast member Tim Smith, said previous public appearances have drawn "between 700 and a thousand."
Organizers estimated that between 3,000 and 3,500 came out during the six hours the "Moonshiners" cast were signing autographs at the store.
Lee Withers, territory manager for equipment manufacturer Husqvarna, said the company arranged to bring the "Moonshiners" cast members to town.
Withers, also mayor pro tem of China Grove, said that on a scale of one to 10, the turnout was "like, an 18."
Even after agreeing to extend the signing for an hour, Withers said, there were still so many people in line at 4:30 p.m. that they had to turn some away.
But, he said, the cast members did come outside to shake hands and sign as many autographs as they could before the doors were shut.
"We had people waiting on us when we got here at 8 a.m.," store owner Chris Biesecker said, standing in the parking lot around 12:30 p.m.
"You can't even walk in there right now," he said.
For a good part of the morning and afternoon, the line snaked through the store, out past a line of lawn mowers and equipment, down to the road and along the sidewalk.
By the time Mark and Cheree McDaniel and daughter Maddy got their autographs, they said, they'd been in line for nearly two hours.
But they didn't care about the wait. "It was worth it to see Tickle," said Maddy, 9. "He's funny and silly."
Tickle, Tim Smith, Howard and J.T. are one team of moonshiners from Virginia featured on the show, which will be entering its third season.
They drove down just to appear at Saturday's event.
"It's a good day," said Tickle, as the last of the autograph-seekers made their way through the store a little after 5 p.m.
The "Moonshiners" stars said they'd gotten a good welcome in Salisbury.
Tim Smith said the group enjoys seeing fans at events like this.
"Without the fans, we're nothing," Smith said. "This gives you that feeling of appreciation."
They spent the day signing photos, T-shirts, flasks and other memorabilia.
Ashlie Bickford showed up with husband Kyle, but didn't have anything for the guys to sign.
So Bickford, who said she's seven months pregnant, asked the men to sign her tummy.
They said they're fans of the show. "Just the history of it," Kyle said.
As for the autograph, "We're going to take pictures of it," Ashlie said.
Scott Trull, of Monroe, drove up with friend Brian Haigler, of Mint Hill.
They've been watching "Moonshiners" since the very first episode, Trull said.
"It's actually good, clean entertainment," Haigler said.
The cast members stepped off the stage at one point to greet Gene Walker, of Concord.
Walker, 77, said he grew up in Morganton.
"I've witnessed most of the things they (the "Moonshiners" cast) have done," he said.
"I was born into the moonshine business. I can relate to it, I know what they're talking about," Walker said.
Many said they came to see one or more of the personalities, especially Tickle.
But Sherry and Larry Hudson, who came up to buy a trailer to haul their motorcycles, had no clue.
"We didn't even know Tickle and them was here!" Sherry said. "I called my daughter and told her."
"I'd love to be able to wait and get a picture made with them, but we can't," Sherry said.
Biesecker said he was glad for the turnout, saying it made him feel he'd made "the right choice" for the audience he's trying to reach.
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Robin Williams was suffering from the early stages of Parkinson's disease along with severe depression at the time of his apparent suicide, his widow said on Thursday, drawing public attention to the correlation between the diseases.
Although the gifted comedian had spoken before about his depression, Parkinson's experts have noted how the incurable and debilitating nervous system disorder that causes tremors and slowness of movement also affects people emotionally.
"The neurochemicals that are impacted by Parkinson's disease and the pathways that control motor functions are also integrally involved in the control of mood," said Dr. Irene Richard, a neurology professor at the University of Rochester in New York.
More than half of those who suffer from Parkinson's also experience clinical depression, according to the National Parkinson Foundation, which advises all Parkinson's patients to be screened for depression.
The 63-year-old Oscar-winning comedic virtuoso, whose madcap style and dramatic versatility made him one of film and television's top stars, was found hanged at his home in Northern California on Monday.
Williams' widow, Susan Schneider, said the comedian "was not yet ready to share publicly" his struggles with Parkinson's, which affects about 1 million people in the United States.
'Part of the Disease'
"It is our hope in the wake of Robin's tragic passing that others will find the strength to seek the care and support they need to treat whatever battles they are facing so they may feel less afraid," Schneider said in the statement.
Between 50,000 and 60,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson's each year in the United States. It typically affects people older than 50.
"We actually believe that (depression) is part of the disease itself. It's related to the brain dysfunction in Parkinson's disease," Richard said.
Actor Michael J. Fox, boxer Muhammad Ali and singer Linda Ronstadt have all be diagnosed with Parkinson's. Ronstadt said last year that the disease had robbed her of her singing voice.
"Stunned to learn Robin had PD," Fox said on Twitter. "Pretty sure his support for our Fdn (foundation) predated his diagnosis. A true friend; I wish him peace."
Williams, whose starring roles included Mrs. Doubtfire and Good Will Hunting, had been open about his struggles with alcohol and had gone to a Minnesota rehabilitation center this summer to "fine-tune" his sobriety, his publicist said in July.
Schneider said Williams was sober when he died and was also suffering from anxiety.
Friends of the comedian, who first shot to prominence as a friendly alien in late 1970s TV series Mork & Mindy, described him as a man who masked his depression and thrived from performing for a crowd.
"Since his passing, all of us who loved Robin have found some solace in the tremendous outpouring of affection and admiration for him from the millions of people whose lives he touched," Schneider said.
Funeral arrangements are pending, and a full toxicology report will take two to six weeks, local officials said.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study finds that women who are obese can limit their weight gain during pregnancy using conventional weight loss techniques, including attending weekly group support meetings, seeking advice about nutrition and diet, and keeping food and exercise journals.
Results of the Healthy Moms study, published in Obesity, also show that obese women who limit their weight gain during pregnancy are less likely to have large-for-gestational age babies, which can complicate delivery and increase the baby's risk of becoming obese later in life.
"Most interventions to limit weight gain among obese women during pregnancy have failed, but our study shows that with regular contact and support, these women can limit the amount of weight they gain, which will also reduce the risk of complications during and after pregnancy," said author Kim Vesco, MD, MPH, a practicing obstetrician/gynecologist and clinical investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore.
Excessive weight gain during pregnancy has been linked to complications such as preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, an increased rate of C-sections, birthing injuries and weight retention after pregnancy.
Commonly used guidelines from experts at the Institute of Medicine suggest that women who are obese gain between 11 and 20 pounds during pregnancy. Based on observational studies that suggest weight maintenance or limited weight gain may result in better pregnancy outcomes, the Healthy Moms study advises obese women to maintain their weight during pregnancy.
"Most women in our intervention did gain some weight, but they gained and retained significantly less than women who did not participate in the intervention," said Dr. Vesco. "Even with support, it's difficult to limit weight gain during pregnancy, so women who are overweight or obese should aim for the lower end of the weight-gain range recommended by the Institute of Medicine, and they should seek support and nutritional advice to help meet their goals."
The Healthy Moms study included 114 obese women who are Kaiser Permanente Northwest members. Women are considered obese if they have a body mass index of 30 and above; for instance, a woman who is 5 feet 5 inches tall would be considered obese at 180 pounds.
Half of the women participated in an intensive weight-management program that included weekly group meetings, weigh-ins, personalized caloric goals, and food and exercise diaries. The other women were placed in a usual care group consisting of one meeting with a dietitian, at which they received general information about diet and exercise for a healthy pregnancy.
By 34 weeks of pregnancy, women who participated in the intensive, weekly group intervention had gained an average of 11 pounds, compared to 18 pounds for women who did not participate in the intervention. Two weeks after delivery, participants in the intervention weighed approximately 6 pounds less than they did when they were brought into the study, compared to an average weight gain of 3 pounds for women who did not participate in the intervention.
Women in both groups had about the same number of birthing and delivery complications, but only 9 percent of women in the intervention had large-for-gestational age babies, compared to 26 percent of women in the control group. These babies usually grow too fast in the womb, and at birth they weigh more than 90 percent of babies of the same sex and gestational age. For example, a baby boy born at 40 weeks would be considered large for his gestational age if he weighed more than 9 pounds, 3 ounces.
The intervention showed no adverse effects on pregnancy outcomes, but researchers say a larger study is needed to confirm this finding and to understand more about the impact of limited weight gain or weight loss on pregnancy outcomes.
This study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (RO1HD058061)
In addition to Dr. Vesco, authors include Njeri Karanja, PhD, Michael C. Leo, PhD, Nancy Perrin, PhD, Sabina Smith, BS, CCRP, and Victor J. Stevens, PhD, from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore.; Janet C. King, PhD, from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in Oakland, Calif.; Matthew W. Gillman, MD, from the Obesity Prevention Program, Harvard Medical School in Boston; Cindy T. McEvoy, MD, MCR, from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland; and Cara L. Eckhardt, PhD, from the School of Community Health at Portland State University in Portland.
About the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research, founded in 1964, is a nonprofit research institution dedicated to advancing knowledge to improve health. It has research sites in Portland, Oregon, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Atlanta, Georgia.
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Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve approximately 9.5 million members in eight states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the-art care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. For more information, go to: kp.org/share.
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Cultivate a Love for Language and Literacy with Emily Lim
Ms Emily Lim, a popular local children's author, shares with Beanstalk some practical tips and strategies for cultivating a love of language and literacy in young children!
Reading to children from an early age can make a lasting impact on their language and literacy skills. Emily shares with Beanstalk practical tips and strategies to help young children cultivate a love for language and literacy!
- Go with the children's interest when choosing books to read.
Find out what your child likes – be it cars, dinosaurs, butterflies or bunnies – and look for picture books with similar characters they can relate to. The children will then want to look at the books and enjoy the stories better.
When your children are interested or excited in a particular topic, be it animals, planes or superheroes, that would be one step closer to loving books.
- Read books that are fun and simply for pleasure.
I have read the Dr Seuss' books many times to my pre-schoolers. They love it because they are fun, silly and have some ridiculous sounding words which they enjoy hearing. Also, have many reading moments where you read the book together purely for pleasure, rather than to teach and test. Given the short attention span of pre-schoolers, language is best caught, rather than taught.
When reading to children, it should be for the pleasure of wanting to read to them, rather than wanting to teach them. Enjoying a book is an activity that is best caught rather than taught.
- Encourage storytelling, imaginative wordplay, and add onomatopoeia to your book reading.
If you just sit still and read to them, children may not take away much from the activity. Talk through the pictures in the book and pause through a reading to ask questions to create more excitement. There is also no need to rush through the entire book. If children show interest in a particular page, let them talk about it for as long as they want, before bringing them back to the story.
Pre-schoolers are in the pretend play stage. So make up stories with characters they like. Make up words by all means – even Dr Seuss does that!
And do incorporate onomatopoeia into your book reading. Let your storybook cows "moo", chickens "cluck" and trucks go "beep beep"!
- Encourage song and dance as a way to pick up and enjoy language
I found Chinese DVDs with older kids performing songs and dance as a great way to get my pre-schooler to speak Mandarin...well, sing it.
- Talk & Engage
This is actually more tiring than just reading a book to a child. I know because I am a full-time caregiver. But when you talk and engage young children, they pick up language skills best.
The top 3 tips from Emily Lim are also featured in Happily Ever After under the July – September 2015 issue of Beanstalk Magazine.
Local children's author Emily Lim has written more than 30 books and won international awards for at least four of them, including Prince Bear and Pauper Bear and The Tale of Rusty Horse. Reading with young children, says Ms Lim, helps them to pick up words that they need to use to communicate, which further contributes to their language and literacy development. Ms Lim has been speaking to her son Caleb in proper sentences - since he was born - and read him her books. She believes her efforts have played a part in Caleb being an early talker. "At nine months, he was speaking a lot of simple words, and the moment he passed one, he was using two words combined," she said. Caleb, now four years old, can also tell his own simple stories.
Emily has also worked with the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) to produce a series of books illustrating the key general principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
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Dear Lifehacker,
My parents could really use an upgrade in the cellphone department because they're still using dumbphones. Is there a particular smartphone that's better for non-tech savvy users?
Luddite Phone
Dear LP,
Getting a non-tech savvy person into a smartphone isn't an easy task. While it's partially about finding a good fit for them on a usability level, it's also just about figuring out which features really matter to someone. While you have a ton of options out there, we'll stick to the big three here: Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone.
Make Sure They Actually Want a Smartphone
It might sound silly to those of us who've had smartphones for a while, but the fact is, not everyone wants one. Nor does everyone need one. In fact, for a lot of people, a dumbphone is still the best option.
A bunch of reasons exist for this. For one, smartphones are usually more expensive because they come with a data plan that adds to their bill. As CNET points out, the bill alone is worth considering, and it's a deal breaker for many:
The bottom line is that iPhones and really any smartphone are expensive devices to own. So unless your parents plan to use the features of these device, it's probably a waste of money. A less-expensive option for them would be to get a pay-as-you-go service on a basic feature phone and then buy a small tablet like the iPad Mini, the Nexus 7 Android tablet, or a Kindle Fire, which can be used on Wi-Fi networks for free. This way they can access the Internet and all kinds of apps, but they won't have to pay for the expensive data services associated with owning a smartphone.
There's also the simple fact that less tech-savvy people are, by their nature, less interested in technology. This means things like games, fancy apps, or email with push notifications just don't matter to them. While it's great that the iPhone is easy to use, the fact that it has 900,000 apps means nothing to most people.
The point is, before you even consider which smartphone is best, think about whether a smartphone is needed at all. If so, then it's time to decide which smartphone will work best. If not, then it's likely best to just save the cash and stick with the dumbphone.
Pick the Right Phone
The best smartphone for people who aren't great with technology is really going to depend on a lot of factors.
For Those Who Want Email and Web Browsing: Windows Phone
As we've noted before, the Windows Phone is a really good option for people looking for what essentially amounts to a dumbphone that can also surf the web, check email, and navigate you around town. The interface is easy to use at a glance, and if someone's coming from a dumbphone they're not going to struggle too much to use the phone at first.
The nice thing about the Windows Phone is that it's a really good mix of the better features of the iPhone and Android. It has the ease of use of the iPhone where anyone can pick it up and use it, but Windows Phones also have a bunch of model options like Android, so they can find a bigger screen or nice hardware if they want. Essentially, a Windows phone is a win-win for anyone who doesn't really care that much about apps or features.
For Those Who Want Apps: The iPhone
The iPhone is nearly as simple as the Windows Phone, but it also comes packed with a gigantic App Store. The App Store is a huge selling point for techies and non-techies alike. If they're looking to download that new app they heard about from their friends, play the latest games, and so on, then the iPhone does it better than anyone else.
On top of that, the iPhone 5 is also Wirecutter's pick for best cell phone. Even if you're not a techie, most people understand how to use an iPhone in a couple minutes. It might take a little work to get things like email, the calendar, and contacts set up initially, but once it's working they won't have to worry about it.
The iPhone also hooks into Apple's operating system and iTunes really well, so if you're already using a Mac (or at the very least, iTunes), an iPhone is dead-simple to set up and start using right away. They'll also have access to Apple's Genius Bar for any help they need, which might at least partially cut down on the tech support calls you have to deal with.
For Those Who Require Advanced Features: Android
We'll be honest: despite our love for Android, it's at the bottom of our list for the non-geeks among us. It's a little bit harder to use, every handset is a little bit different,and you're going to be on the hook for all that tech support. However, if your parents are extremely entrenched in the Google universe, require certain advanced features the iPhone doesn't have, or something similar, then obviously Android's your best bet. However, you'll probably find those features are the exact features non tech-savvy people don't need.
That said, Android has come a long way in recent years, and manufacturers like Samsung are really trying to make their phones appealing to more than just the geek crowd. If you're thinking about Android, maybe take them to the store and let them try it out first. It might be a fine choice—it's just a little riskier, since Android is a bit more complicated than Windows Phone or the iPhone. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course—it's what tech geeks like us love about it—but it's might be a little overwhelming to the non tech-savvy crowd. (From my personal experience, my dad, who's a smart enough guy but not remotely interested in tech, struggled to really appreciate anything about the Android phone he had for work).
So, what's the bottom line? It really depends. As a universal recommendation, Windows Phone is definitely the easiest to use and has the right amount of features to make it useful without being overwhelming.
Of course, the iPhone and Android both have plenty of strengths, so it's worth popping into a store with your parents and messing around with different phones for a little while before making that choice. You also want to consider one very simple thing: which phone do you know best? You're likely on tech support duty, so you'll want to pick the phone you can provide support for. If that's not possible, then consider the smartphone that most of their friends have because that'll make it so they always have someone around to help with questions.
While you're there, don't forget that hardware is important too. Anyone upgrading from an indestructible brick of a Nokia dumbphone to an easy-to-destroy smartphone is likely a bit hesitant to mess around with the expensive smartphone. It might also be one of those instances where a smartphone case is a good idea.
Good luck,
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Montague Keen, As Channelled By Veronica Keen, November 18, 2012
My dear, it is heartening for us to see people waking up to the fact that those who control your world, control your media. This is how they have managed to keep you in the dark about their plans for your world. When you hear the truth spoken on your television, then you will know, without a doubt, that the light has triumphed.
You were excited to learn that many in Ireland are suing the banks; so, UNTIL THE BANKS ANSWER THE CHARGES, the people do not have to pay their mortgages ! The people of Ireland are to be congratulated on this. They are the first to attempt to take on the banks. It is going to be interesting to see how this one plays out.
Never doubt for one moment that the Light will return to Earth. The path may be rocky at times and many obstacles will be put in the way, but nothing that you cannot overcome. You are now living through the end times. The propaganda that the Dark Ones have thrived on, is now exposed. It just does not work for them anymore.
Even their own people are standing up and revealing the lies that had held it all together for them. Their house of cards is on very shaky ground. The sheep are no longer prepared to continue to prop it up. All that is not based on truth will crumble and fall: you are beginning to see it all around you. The brainwashing that was done to keep you in your placeno longer works. What is happening is a joint effort: the World of Spirit and those who are open to guidance from Spirit, are doing a fine job.
The child abuse that was top secret for years is now being openly discussed for the first time. My dear, you tried to bring this to public attention many years ago, but you came up against an impenetrable brick wall, no matter what you tried. Now that this wall has been breached, it will fall, and the truth of the extent of the abuse will be unveiled and exposed. This is an essential part of the cleansing process.
Nothing of this sort will ever be tolerated again. The great seats of power that once ruled, will disintegrate and disappear from the face of the Earth forever. This is now happening, right in front of your eyes, just as it should. By this time next year, nothing will be as it is today. The removal of power cannot happen overnight, for it is a gradual process of exposure and removal. The right people must also be in place to pick up the pieces and take the world forward to a peaceful future. A temporary state of chaos cannot be avoided, as this is a massive project and it cannot be rushed. We have considered all eventualities. Anything that is corrupt, in any way, will not be allowed to survive: though some will try.
Many of you have been shown the future, in order to encourage you forward to the desired result. Share this information, as it will give others the strength to reject the dark way of life to which they have become accustomed. Change does not come easy to many of you. You must recognise your strength and your numbers: you are the 99%. You are many, they are few.
Ancient portals are becoming active once more. They are bringing enlightenment to many people. Secrets that were well hidden are being exposed and information is being brought to light that will delight and amaze you. This is happening in many countries. There are new discoveries every day as the Earth gives up its secrets. It is an exciting time to be on Earth. Information will be given when you sleep and when you are in deep meditation. All this is stored in your sub-conscious mind. You will just know things, without knowing how you know.
Those of you who know that you have a role to play in the Transition, should prepare to act at a moment's notice, whenever the call comes. We need the element of surprise. The energy changes are becoming more powerful. Go with them: they bring you the strength to participate in the removal of the darkness. It will all become clear as the path unfolds.
My wife has had an exhausting few days. Please understand, if occasionally, our link is not as powerful as we would like. She is concerned about the conclusion of her work on Earth. Please understand, she has many worries to cope with.
I wish, my love, that I was still beside you.
Your adoring, Monty.


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Charlie Crist joins the Democrats: What drives a political chameleon?
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to formally join the Democratic Party – making the announcement via Twitter after a fist bump from President Obama – suggests to his critics a savvy political chameleon prepping for a 2014 gubernatorial run against Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
But Mr. Crist's steady move to the left – he ran for the Senate as an independent in 2010 – is also clearly a natural curve, boosted by hardball GOP politics, including allegations Crist himself has leveled that GOP hardliners willfully suppressed the vote last month, albeit to no avail.
To be sure, Crist, who served as an Obama surrogate and spoke at the Democratic National Convention, has set himself up as an ideal foil for Republicans both in Florida and nationally, none of whom were surprised at his decision.
Yet Crist's formal declaration as a Democrat, after telling the DNC that "I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me" (echoing Ronald Reagan when the former president left the Democratic Party), still highlights a central GOP post-election conundrum: How to become more, not less, appealing to middle America.
In an interview after the election, Crist pointed to deliberate moves by Republican leaders, including Gov. Scott, to curtail early voting and voter registration efforts, which independent analysts have calculated led to a cumulative 20 percent decrease in early voting hours in some Florida counties.
"After I signed the executive order in [2008] expanding [early voting hours]," Crist told The Palm Beach Post last Sunday, "I heard from Republicans around the state who were bold enough to share it with me that, 'You just gave the election to Barack Obama.'?"
Crist then added, "I assume they decided, 'It's 2011, Crist is gone, let's give it a shot.' And that's exactly what they did. And it is exactly what it turned out to be."
Some conservatives, however, took a different lesson from Crist's decision, namely that the party should welcome the exodus of RINOs, or Republicans-in-name-only: "Crist has acted exactly the way that self-proclaimed moderates within the Republican party typically act," according to an entry on the conservative and widely read Red State blog. "They are willing to be Republicans until they lose a primary challenge and then they quit because 'the Republican party left me.' It also goes to the utter lack of principle that permeates many of our political organization."
But Crist's decision also comes after he tried for years to push Republicans to a more moderate stance – a fight he lost in 2010, both as he lost to a tea party-backed Republican – Marco Rubio – and the rightward turn of the national party as a whole.
At the 2008 Republican Governors Association meeting, which Crist hosted in Miami, he said, "This party can no longer hope to reach Hispanics, African Americans and other minority groups – we need to just do it. Embracing cultures and lifestyles will make us a better party and better leaders. This desire for inclusiveness is near and dear to my heart…."
While Crist has historically been strong on gun rights and has been primarily anti-abortion, his overall record is more liberal. As governor, Crist pushed for stricter air pollution standards and opposed offshore drilling, a position he altered as gas prices rose in 2008. He also reformed state health insurance rules, helping to expand benefits for disabled people and low-income residents.
"I've had friends for years tell me, 'You know Charlie, you're a Democrat and you know it,'" Crist told the Tampa Bay Times.
Yet Crist's convictions will be easy for Republicans to highlight, as they already have, blaming his policies in large part for Florida's economic downturn.
"Charlie Crist's first official act as a Democrat was to tell a lie about why he is now pretending to be one," the Republican Party of Florida wrote in a statement on Saturday. "The truth is that this self-professed, Ronald-Reagan Republican only abandoned his pro-life, pro-gun, conservative principles in 2010 after he realized that Republicans didn't want to send him to Washington D.C. as a senator, especially after he proved he couldn't do the job as governor."


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This pre-rebuttal of President Obama's State of the Union speech tonight was delivered by Republican candidate Mitt Romney at a Tampa gypsum warehouse, which closed when demand for drywall collapsed with the bust of the building boom. (Note: Romney used a Tele-Prompter -- a common speech tool that conservatives have used to bash President Obama).
Thank you. It's good to be in the Sunshine State. It breaks my heart to visit plants like this one.
In 2008, this plant closed because of the economic downturn. In a normal recovery under strong leadership, it could now be full of workers.
Here in Florida, people used to wake up and look forward to a hard day's work and a good, honest wage. The money they earned helped support families and build communities. Today too many factory floors are silent, warehouses are deserted, corporate offices are empty, and real estate endeavors are abandoned. Floridians are struggling to find a job, keep a home, and raise a family.
As I've traveled across America, I've heard similar stories in virtually every corner of this country. High unemployment and record home foreclosures. Debt that's too high and opportunities that are too few. This is the real state of our union. But you won't hear stories like these in President Obama's address tonight. The unemployed don't get invitations to sit with the First Lady.
Like 9.9 – that's the unemployment rate in this state.
Or 25 percent – that's the percentage of foreclosed homes in America that are right here in Florida.
Or $15 trillion – that's the size of our national debt.
Instead, tonight, President Obama will make the opening argument in his campaign against a "Do Nothing Congress." But, we shouldn't forget that for two years, this President had a Congress that could do everything he wanted.
With huge Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, President Obama was free to pursue any policy he pleased.
Did he fix the economy?
Did he tackle the housing crisis?
Did he get Americans back to work?
No. He spent $787 billion on a stimulus bill and put us on track to borrow and spend $5 trillion in just his first term. He forced through Obamacare – a trillion-dollar entitlement we don't want and can't afford. He took over auto companies and student loans.
He stacked the National Labor Relations Board with union yes-men who, in turn, did favors for his campaign contributors and favorite friends.
When we needed stability and solvency, he gave us Solyndra.
When we needed a climate for private investment, he gave us Cash for Clunkers.
When we needed more domestic energy to keep prices low and create jobs, he imposed bans on oil drilling and turned his EPA regulators loose to slow our development of natural gas.
He's spearheaded one of the largest expansions of government in American history. And he's paying for it with money borrowed from China.
Three years ago, we measured Candidate Obama by his hopeful promises and slogans.
Today, President Obama has amassed an actual record of debt, decline, and disappointment.
This President's agenda made these troubled times last longer. He and his allies made it harder for the economy to recover.
Instead of solving the housing crisis and getting Americans back to work, President Obama has been building a European-style welfare state. He has pushed for a second stimulus and deep cuts to our national defense. He's asking the American people for another trillion dollars – and another term in office.
He keeps telling people, "We can't wait." To which I say, "Yes, we can."
Tonight, the President will deliver his State of the Union. But make no mistake: What he's really offering are partisan planks for his re-election campaign.
The President has been telling people that his agenda will create an economy that's "built to last." Well, let's talk about what has lasted.
What has lasted is unemployment above 8% for 35 straight months. What will last is almost as much debt in four years as all the prior presidents combined. What will last are home values that are too low and foreclosure rates that are too high. And a legacy of debt that will imperil future generations.
What is critical is that we make today Barack Obama's last State of the Union.
The President's agenda sounds less like "built to last" and more like doomed to fail. What he's proposing is more of the same: more taxes, more spending, and more regulation. And all of his proposals involve "big" government and "big" price tags.
Tonight, we'll also be treated to more divisive rhetoric from a desperate campaigner-in-chief. It's shameful for a President to use the State of the Union to divide our nation. And someone ought to tell him: In order for the economy to truly "work for everyone," everyone needs to be working.
But more than anything, I expect the President will take this opportunity to take another victory lap. In big speeches, he tends to tell tall tales about an America that's thriving on his watch.
In 2010, he announced that "the worst of this economic storm has passed." I know the people of Tampa don't believe that. Today, 24 million Americans are struggling for work. 2.8 million Americans have lost their homes. But President Obama believes he ranks among the four best presidents in history.
Here in Florida, you know better. You know that this President has run out of ideas. He's run out of excuses. And, with your help, 2012 will be the year he runs out of time.
If tonight were the first message to Congress in a Romney administration, I'd have the courage to tell the American people how it is and tell Congress what we really need to do. I wouldn't spend my time blaming others for how we got in this mess; I'd explain how we're going to get out of it. I'd use the State of the Union to lay out an agenda that will get our country back on track and get our fiscal house in order.
My agenda would make government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
As President, I will repeal unnecessary regulations and restore our good credit rating.
I will reduce tax rates and simplify the tax code, especially for middle-income Americans. I will streamline regulation, ensure the prompt review of projects, and order agencies to focus on economic growth. The Keystone Pipeline is a real "shovel-ready" project that would put 20,000 Americans back to work. Three years of review is long enough. The President was wrong to reject it. I will approve it.
I will open up new markets for American goods, and open up our lands so that we can finally develop our energy resources. A revolution in drilling for natural gas has opened up new supplies that will create American jobs, provide affordable energy, and offer our manufacturers a competitive edge. My administration will support the development of these resources, not find excuses to stand in the way.
If I were speaking to Congress tonight, I'd note that it's now been one thousand days since the Senate last passed a budget. That's irresponsible. It's unacceptable. And, as President, I will cut spending, cap spending, and finally balance the budget.
I would pledge to do all that a President can to get America working again. When it comes to the economy, my highest priority would be worrying about your job, not saving my own.
As President, I will reverse the Obama-era defense cuts. I believe a strong America must – and will – lead the future. I will insist on a military so powerful that no one would ever think of challenging it.
That is the State of the Union I would deliver tonight. My plans protect our freedom and preserve opportunity. They reflect common-sense solutions and conservative values. And, over the past seven months, that agenda has rallied millions of Americans to our cause.
Our campaign is about more than replacing a President; it is about saving the soul of America. This election is a choice between two very different destinies.
President Obama wants to "fundamentally transform" America. We want to restore America to the founding principles that made this country great.
This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
Ours is the party of free enterprise, free markets, and consumer choice. The Republican Party stands for personal responsibility and equal opportunity. We don't demonize prosperity. We celebrate success.
That's the difference between our party and this President. He leads the party of big government. He believes in ever-expanding entitlement.
He's wrong. We're right. And this is a battle we cannot lose.
During my 25 years in business, I helped companies like Staples and the Sports Authority grow from start-ups to international enterprises. I turned around companies, a state government, and an Olympics. And I am passionate about our economic liberty because I have seen it reward the hard work of many – and create prosperity for all.
I have the experience to get America back to work. I have the judgment we need in the White House. And I will offer a real choice in the coming campaign.
Tonight will mark another chapter in the misguided policies of the last three years – and the failed leadership of one man. But Americans know that our future is brighter and better than these troubled times.
We still believe in the hope, the promise, and the dream of America. We still believe in that shining city on a hill.
A year from now a President will be giving another State of the Union address. The choice before us is clear.
Do we want a president who will try to explain again why his policies haven't worked?
Do we want a president who will keep promising that this time he will get it right?
Do we want a president who keep telling us why he's right and why we're wrong?
Or do we want the sense of excitement that comes with a new beginning?
We are Americans and Americans don't have to settle for a president who argues that things could be worse. We know that things can – and must – be better.
If you want to make this election about restoring American greatness, then I hope you will join us.
If you believe the disappointments of the last few years are a detour, not our destiny, then I am asking for your support.
If you share my belief that we need to scale back government so that we can expand prosperity, then I need your vote.
Thank you. And God bless the United States of America.


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Parshat Tzav
The Torah addresses Aharon and his sons to teach them additional laws relating to their service. The ashes of the korban olah — the offering burnt on the altar throughout the night — are to be removed from the area by the kohen after he changes his special linen clothing. The olah is brought by someone who forgot to perform a positive commandment of the Torah. The kohen retains the skin. The fire on the altar must be kept constantly ablaze. The korban mincha is a meal offering of flour, oil and spices. A handful is burned on the altar and a kohen eats the remainder before it becomes leaven. The Parsha describes the special korbanot to be offered by the Kohen Gadol each day, and by Aharon's sons and future descendants on the day of their inauguration. The chatat, the korban brought after an accidental transgression, is described, as are the laws of slaughtering and sprinkling the blood of the asham guilt-korban. The details of shelamim, various peace korbanot, are described, including the prohibition against leaving uneaten until morning the remains of the todah, the thanks-korban. All sacrifices must be burned after they may no longer be eaten. No sacrifice may be eaten if it was slaughtered with the intention of eating it too late. Once they have become ritually impure,korbanot may not be eaten and should be burned. One may not eat a korban when he is ritually impure. Blood and chelev, forbidden animal fats, are prohibited to be eaten. Aharon and his sons are granted the breast and shank of every korban shelamim. The inauguration ceremony for Aharon, his sons, the Mishkan and all of its vessels is detailed.
Virtual Reality
"Command Aharon and his sons, saying: 'This is the law of the Olah." (6:2)
Imagine you are walking through a field.
Behind you some cows lazily are chewing grass. Ahead of you is a fence. In the fence is a narrow gate. You saunter towards the gate and without too much attention exit the field. You're just about to go back and close the metal gate when you see one of the cows that has been following you nuzzle up to the gate.
There is a blinding blue flash. The cow convulses in paroxysms. Thousands of volts course through its body. The air fills with the smell of burning flesh. A few seconds and it's all over. The cow is very quiet and very dead. Nothing can be heard except the birds singing away in blatant disregard to this scene.
What would you feel like? Wouldn't you think, "That could have been me"? That should have been me"?
The korban was the ultimate virtual reality experience.
An essential purpose of a korban was that a person who did a sin should see the death of the animal. He should see its lifeblood thrown on the corners of the altar. He should see its limbs being burned and he should think to himself "That should have been me. I am the one that they should really be doing this to."
Perforce we are sent into this world, and perforce we are taken from it. We do not own our lives. Our lives are always in the Hands of the Maker. When we do evil, we remove our raison d'être. We remove the reason for our lives. It is as though we tear up our contract with G-d. G-d has a deal with each of us: He gives us life and the ability to sustain ourselves and all He asks is that we use the world in the correct manner. When we renege on the deal we remove ourselves from the world.
However, G-d in His infinite kindness and goodness allows us a way back. Through the process of teshuva we can to return to Him as though we had never sinned. G-d accepts the body of the animal instead of the body of the one who has sinned. The main point of the korban is to awaken in the heart thoughts of regret for evil actions; thoughts of returning to G-d.
It was the ultimate in virtual reality.


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He is her most dangerous temptation, the only man she has ever trusted and now he is demanding her submission. Dare she take the risk?
Emotionally scarred in the horrific accident that took her husband's life, Lady Cranfield is imprisoned by her lingering terror of horses and carriages. Lady Cranfield longed to be closer to the fascinating Earl of Ruel. She sensed intuitively that he could teach her how to overcome the terrors that held her in bondage.
And now she's willing to risk almost anything-her reputation, even her virtue-to find out. But what he proposes startles her.
When the shy, studious and socially awkward young widow approached him, Ruel instantly sensed she would be the sweetest, most submissive experience of a lifetime-if only he can gain her total and complete trust. He makes her a non-negotiable offer. His help in return for her submission and obedience.
But Lady Cranfield grew up neglected by her ducal parents, raised by servants and then later ignored by her handsome, charming husband. She's learnt to protect her heart at all costs and she trusts no one but herself.
How can the jaded Earl of Ruel break through her self-protective defences and show her how to love when he has spent his lifetime avoiding that tender trap?
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10 Amazing Facts About Pixar
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It's no secret that Pixar films are beloved the world over. There are many great Easter eggs and tidbits hidden in their movies, but did you know these 10 Amazing Facts about Pixar itself?
AllTime10s has posted another great video, now focusing on some interesting bits of information about the famed animation company. Some of these facts might already be known to most folk, such as "A113″ appearing in many Pixar films as a tribute to a room at CalArts, where many Pixar animators studied. One of the first instances of this number appearing in a Pixar movie was on the license plate of a car in 'Toy Story.'
Other facts are less known and provide some fun trivia, such as John Lasseter owning over 1,000 Hawaiian shirts. He purportedly files them by subject and rotates them with the seasons. That's a lot of shirts.
Then there's the interesting promotion that Disney & Pixar wanted to run for 'Ratatouille' in which they'd sell bottles of wine with Remy the Rat on the label. This idea was nixed because some people felt that it encouraged underage drinking.
But the coolest fact, in our humble opinion, is that there's a full-scale replica of Carl Fredricken's house from 'Up' in Utah. Everything from the film has been recreated in the interior and the house is valued at $399,900. But there's no word on whether or not you can throw a lever in order to get it airborne with the help of balloons.
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Things are out of whack at Samsung and a number of fairly drastic changes are in store.
Start with the company's crown jewel, the Galaxy S5 smartphone: Samsung sold 40 per cent fewer Galaxy S5 smartphones than expected, leaving the phones piled up in warehouses, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Sales of the Galaxy S5 reached 12 million units in the first 90 days since they went on sale in April, compared to sales of 16 million Galaxy S4's for the same period the year before, the report added. The Galaxy S5 snafu was made worse because Samsung's mobile division, headed by J.K.Shin, allowed 20 per cent more Galaxy S5s to be produced than its predecessor.
The report indicated that Shin could lose his role as mobile head and co-chief executive, although Samsung wouldn't comment on Monday.
The insights on the failings of the Galaxy S5 haven't surprised analysts and reviewers who didn't like the smartphone with its plastic case, especially in a market that is shipping more top Android competitors from Motorola and LG Electronics. The smartphone market is also expanding with mid-priced and low-priced Android phones from makers including Xiaomi, Lenovo and Huawei in huge markets such as China. The release of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in September didn't help.
Another big concern: Samsung's net profit fell 49 per cent in the third quarter following the poor sales of the Galaxy S5. Samsung had operating profit margins above 15 per cent for 10 consecutive quarters before the third-quarter margin fell to 7 per cent, the lowest since 2008.
Why it matters: IDC reported Samsung's market share dropped to 23.8 per cent in the third quarter, down from 32.5 per cent a year earlier.
Samsung has already announced some adjustments, saying recently it would cut the number of smartphone models it will make by 25% to 30% next year. Samsung also declared it will focus on improving product competitiveness for each smartphone price tier, including those phones with flexible displays and metal frames.
That metal frame commitment seemed to be a direct response to deep criticism of the plastic Galaxy S5 case.
"The Galaxy S5 has been an unmitigated disaster for Samsung," said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. "They chose some wrong features to invest in, like heart rate monitoring -- who wants to measure their heart rate like that? The phone is plastic, too, and feels cheap to the touch. Premium phone owners want more from their phones."
The Exynos processor in some of the international Galaxy S5 models was slow compared to other phones with processors from Apple, Nvidia and Qualcomm. "The phone was brutalised in the benchmarks," Moorhead said.
Since the U.S. market is important to phone makers, including Samsung in the higher-priced segment, Samsung can be hurt by the LG G3 and other comparable models that could cost less than the Galaxy S5. (For example, Verizon Wireless now has the Galaxy S5 on a two-year contract for $US200, down from $US250, while the LG G3 is now $US150, down from $US200. )
"There are lots of credible phones out there now from LG and Motorola ... LG has been hurting Samsung in the US," said Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates. "Many customers shop on features and price, and when you go to a Verizon or AT&T store where all the phones mostly look alike, but the LG is a few bucks less, which will you buy?"
Even so, the U.S. is just one market and Samsung's biggest volume losses are in emerging markets like China and southeast Asian countries.
If Shin is moved aside as mobile chief at Samsung, he could be replaced by Boo-keun Yoon, another co-CEO who oversees Samsung's consumer electronics business and would reportedly take on the mobile role as well. That move would give Samsung a strategic direction toward combining mobile devices with home electronics products that are Internet-connected.
What Samsung needs to do
A management shift at Samsung won't automatically fix matters.
Samsung needs a big overhaul "to focus on the technologies and experiences that premium phone consumers want," Moorhead said. "They have to stop living in the past when they did have an advantage on Apple. Even their ads are living in the past.
"Samsung needs to dig deep and invent that next technology and experiences that are valuable to consumers and that Apple doesn't have."
Gold said an even bolder brand-focusing adjustment should be in order for top Samsung managers. "Samsung's challenges are not so much about management as they are about what the brand stands for," Gold said.
"In the past, Samsung was the brand to go with if you wanted Android instead of iPhone or BlackBerry. Now, with so many other vendors making credible, quality Android devices, Samsung becomes just another commodity maker of devices. So getting brand back may be partially solved by shuffling the deck of executives, if they can get some execs with strategic vision to right the process.
"But largely Samsung has to reinforce its brand as THE leader in Android, against the iPhone juggernaut and that may be hard to do," Gold added. "Samsung needs to be the 'halo' brand, not the commodity brand."
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COVID-19 Creates Dramatic Swings for Interior Design Industry
While June's Interior Design Billing Index (IDBI) of 49.2 still remains in contractionary territory, it did add 7.9 points to May's performance of 42.3 (any score above 50 represents expansion and below 50 represents contraction in billings). With a 30-point gain since April's all-time IDBI survey low of 18.7, a recovery appears to be underway for the industry and profession. The IDBI's three-month moving average index, however, remains burdened at 36.7, largely reflecting the after-effects of the shutdown of the economy in April due to the extensive outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). June's Inquiries Index moved into expansion territory from 49.1 in May to 52.3 for June, signaling positive future opportunities for interior design firms. The three-month moving average for Inquires rose to 41.6 in June, again carrying the effects of the previously mentioned economic shutdown.
Reported as three-month moving averages, all regions remain soft and in contractionary territory for June but have started to inch upward. Indexes rose for all regions: Midwest (35.4), South (33.1), Northeast (23.2), and West (33.8); while Northeast firms still remain near all-time lows even with this slightly improvement.
Over the next six months, panelists downgraded its appraisal of business conditions, decreasing the outlook index by 1.9 points to 54.4 for June; even with this drop, it is still a positive assessment regarding the second half of 2020 since it is a reading above 50.


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Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice
Yield: 6 servings|
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 8 hours
Inactive Prep Time: 12 hours
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 pound smoked Creole seasoned sausage (andouille), cut into small pieces
- 2 cups dried red beans, soaked overnight and drained
- 1 quart water
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Hot cooked rice (about 3 to 4 cups)
- In a slow cooker, combine the onion, garlic and sausage.
- Stir in the beans and water and season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Cover and cook on low heat until the beans are tender, about 7 1/2 hours (on high it takes between 3 1/2 to 4 hours).
- Remove 1/4 cup of beans from slow cooker; mash until smooth, then sir them stir back into slow cooker.
- Continue to cook for another 30 minutes on low or 15 minutes on high.
- Remove the beans from the cooker to a serving bowl.
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By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer among men in the United States. This year alone, it is estimated that more than 220,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed and that nearly 29,000 men will die from this disease. During National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, we seek to increase understanding about the risk factors of prostate cancer, the importance of a healthy lifestyle, and the benefits of detecting the disease in its earliest stages, when it is most treatable.
Although the exact cause of prostate cancer is unknown, several factors have been found to increase the risk of developing this disease. Men aged 65 years or older make up about 70 percent of all diagnosed prostate cancer cases. In addition, a man's risk of developing prostate cancer doubles if a father or brother has been diagnosed with the disease.
Making healthy choices is critical to prevent prostate cancer and many other diseases. Research suggests that some men may be able to reduce their risk of prostate cancer by eating healthy foods and exercising on a regular basis.
Early detection is important in successfully treating prostate cancer. Preventative screenings can reveal a man's current health status and identify whether he needs to adjust his diet or behavior. I urge men, particularly those over 50, to learn more about the disease and to talk to their doctors about when to start preventative screening. Healthcare providers can advise men as to which tests are most appropriate. Through early detection and treatment, we can reduce the number of deaths caused by prostate cancer.
Today, our Nation is on the leading edge of new discoveries. As we continue to make advancements in medicine, my Administration remains committed to learning the causes of prostate cancer and finding a cure. My fiscal year 2004 budget proposal includes more than $13 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct, support, and promote efforts that increase awareness of screening and early detection, and more than $5.6 billion for cancer research at the National Institutes of Health. Through my HealthierUS Initiative, my Administration is also encouraging all citizens to lead healthier lives by eating right, exercising, and taking advantage of preventative screening. By working together, we will improve our ability to prevent, treat, and cure prostate cancer.
Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 2003 as National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. I call upon government officials, businesses, communities, healthcare professionals, educators, volunteers, and all people of the United States to reaffirm our Nation's strong and continuing commitment to prevent, treat, and cure prostate cancer.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.
Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on September 5.
George W. Bush, Proclamation 7700—National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, 2003 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210994


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The House We All Live in
01-22-2013This past weekend I took the time to watch Eugene Jarecki's new documentary film The House I Live In, which calls passionately and insistently for the U.S. to end its decades-long War on Drugs. Jarecki's previous documentary work includes The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) and Why We Fight (2006), and he is known for activist filmmaking that combines sharp social commentary with fluid storytelling. There is much to admire in Jarecki's take on the effort to stamp out illicit drugs, and given the massive racial and class disparities that have emerged in prosecution and sentencing, he is right to cast the War as a litmus test of our national commitment to equitable democratic citizenship. But there is also something about the manner in which he makes his case, and the very sweep of his vision, that gives me momentary pause.
Let me touch on the film's strong suits first. Above all else, Jarecki sheds powerful light on the intimate impacts of the drug trade and the law enforcement crackdown against it. He does so in no small part by giving a prominent role to Nannie Jeter, the African-American woman that Jarecki's family employed as a housekeeper in his youth. (Nannie is Jeter's given name, not a reference to her role in the family's life.) Jarecki regards Jeter as a second mother, and he often played with her children as a boy. We learn, however, that their paths in the world diverged sharply from his own, and several of them eventually became entangled in drug use, drug-related HIV/AIDS, and incarceration. Jarecki unflinchingly relates how his family's privilege had adverse if unintended consequences for Jeter's, and while some viewers might fault him for inserting himself into the film, his approach ultimately lends moral heft to his pointed political argument. Jarecki maintains that we are all implicated in the circumstances that led to the War on Drugs, and he refuses to remove himself from the film's critical scrutiny.
In addition, The House I Live In includes revealing commentary from the many varied participants in the American drug crackdown: dealers and cops, defendants and judges, prisoners and wardens, activists and lawmakers, parents and children. The film features articulate reflections from people who have dealt drugs in the past and are now in correctional custody. Significantly, not one of these individuals denies responsibility for their actions—"I messed up" is a common refrain—but all seek to situate their decisions and actions within larger structures of constraint and disadvantage. At the same time, Jarecki includes remarkably candid insights from law enforcement personnel. Although a few of them make disturbing admissions about the perverse incentives that encourage profiling and drug-bust profiteering, the film does not demonize police officers and corrections officials. It instead allows them to express both the pride and the ambivalence they feel toward their work.
Lastly, Jarecki musters a wide array of legal and other experts, including prominent academics like Michelle Alexander and Charles Ogletree, to lend his film critical perspective and authority. To be sure, almost all of these commentators are sympathetic to Jarecki's viewpoint, but it is nevertheless refreshing to hear intellectuals speak as intellectuals in any kind of feature-length American film. What is more, these figures do not merely touch on what are, at least for me, the most familiar and even well-worn points about recent drug-related criminal justice: the introduction of mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines in the 1970s and 1980s, the precipitous increase in rates of incarceration, and the dramatic expansion that ensued in both the state-run and private prison industries. For these commentators also relate the War on Drugs to the years of Jim Crow in the South; the Great Migration of African Americans to the Northeast and Midwest; the redlining and other practices that contributed to the formation of racially segregated ghettos; and the far-reaching impacts of deindustrialization. This attention to the longue durée of U.S. history is one of the film's strongest attributes.
At the same time, Jarecki's commitment to accessible and engaging narrative sometimes gets him into trouble. Although he and his collaborators are quick to criticize the reductive sound-bites that have defined mainstream public discourse from Nixon to George W. Bush, the film is occasionally too content to rely on its own slick editing and glib turns of phrase. There are also moments when sobriety yields too much ground to showmanship. Of all his interlocutors, Jarecki grants the most prominent role not to any person directly impacted by the War on Drugs, but to David Simon, the former journalist who went on to create the HBO hit "The Wire." To his credit, Simon is a generally subdued and thoughtful commentator, but should the maker of a television series, however relevant and critically acclaimed, really receive this kind of precedence?
Jarecki's priorities as a filmmaker also entail some unfortunate substantive trade-offs. At one key point in the film, he relies on interview footage with several experts to contend that the criminalization of opium, cocaine, and marijuana in the early twentieth century was not ultimately driven by benign public health and safety concerns; it was rather motivated by racially charged anxieties over the arrival of immigrant groups and the challenges they posed to white workers on local and regional labor markets. I am willing to grant that racist and nativist resentments may have played some role in the crackdowns against the users and distributors of these substances.
I can only imagine, however, that this claim—at least in its bald formulation in the film—is much more contentious in scholarly and other circles than Jarecki is prepared to admit here.In any case, such a line of argument cannot explain the more recent public response to methamphetamine, a drug that is more closely associated with (poor) whites than any minority or immigrant group.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the film, however, concerns the dubious parallels that Jarecki proposes between the War on Drugs and other cases of group exclusion and violence. Drawing once more on footage from multiple interviewees, he suggests that American law enforcement since the late 1960s has followed a sequence of collective identification, ostracism, confiscation, concentration, and annihilation that can also be observed (most notably) in the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. The film is quick to add that the "chain of destruction" evident in the contemporary U.S. is not equivalent to the one that unfolded in Central and Eastern Europe during World War II. But that does not prevent David Simon from casting the War on Drugs as "a Holocaust in slow motion" against America's poor and minority populations. Such hyperbolic language strikes me not just as deeply misguided, but entirely unnecessary. Viewers do not need such problematic analogies in order to grasp the film's claims and stakes.
Despite these warts and missteps, The House I Live In is well worth watching. The film makes a daring claim on viewers' conscience, and it calls on all of us to undertake the challenging work of thinking through our convictions as citizens in fundamental ways. We need more, not less, of this kind of provocation.
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Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for December 3, 2006.
We go around the podosphere in this episode. I play a song from Sufjan Stevens and talk about the sentimental feelings it invokes in me; I play a bunch of clips – Richard Dawkins on In Our Time; Nando Parrado from the Authors on Tour podcast; Michael Apted from KCRW's The Treatment; Kathan Brown on IT Conversations; Dan the Automator from RU Sirius; Steve Blush and Paul Rachman from RU Sirius; a speech from Something to Be Desired; a web 2.0 commercial from Hak.5; and finally a snippet from Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase. I follow it up with a song by Michelle Malone and then hit the Nyquil and go back to bed.
Today's misstatements: I refer to the host of In Our Time as "Melvyn Peake" when he is in fact "Melvyn Bragg". I say that Hak.5 is from Toronto when it is really from Virginia.
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Links mentioned in this episode:
- Sufjan Stevens
- Asthmatic Kitty store where you can buy Sufjan albums
- In Our Time on BBC
- Altruism espisode of In Our Time
- Authors on Tour podcast
- Nando Parrado from Authors on Tour
- KCRW's The Treatment
- Michael Apted on The Treatment
- Kathan Brown on IT Conversations
- RU Sirius show
- Dan the Automator on RU Sirius
- Steve Blush and Paul Rachman on RU Sirius
- Something to Be Desired web TV series
- Something to Be Desired, Season One – Episode 4 – where the speech came from
- Hak.5
- Hak.5 Episode with the Web 2.0 commercial
- Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase
- Betty's Bombshell episode
- Michelle Malone
- Buy Michelle Malone stuff
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Webcasting en Español - Open House
Special invitation to all that are interested in learning webcasting in Spanish. Our Open House will be on Friday June 6 at 6 p.m. Pacific. Check your local time. at http://puentesalmundo.net/live On this program I (Jose Rodriguez) and Alan Acevedo share what Webcasting is all about and what we expect from our session starting soon. In our Open House we will be giving an orientation to the Moodle course at http://webcastacademy.com and answer any questions you may have. For more information visit our worldbridges spanish site: http://puentesalmundo.net Spread the News!!!!
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Tile profiles
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shower boards and channels. The products for sealing, isolating and
draining complete our range.
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At alferpro the production takes place on advanced, semi-automated machines.
At the heart of our production are four high-performance machines producing flat product profiles. Steel is mainly processed here, which requires special care and expertise. Generated at a speed of up to 20 m/min are a variety of products with different cross sections, punch patterns and lengths. Qualified employees operate and monitor the semi-automated machines, so that only the best and personally controlled quality leaves our factory.
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Dutch Rock Legends Focus To Undertake Worldwide Tour In Support Of Forthcoming CD Release 'Focus X'
Oct. 23, 2012 - London, UK - Much to the excitement of music fans across the planet, Dutch rock legends Focus will be undertaking a worldwide tour beginning November 2012 in support of their forthcoming CD 'Focus X'. With their unique brand of progressive rock, Focus manifested themselves at the start of the '70s as the most successful and appreciated of all the Dutch pop-rock exports. Fronted by founding member Thijs Van Leer, and best known for their hits "Hocus Pocus", "House of The King" and "Sylvia", as well as critically acclaimed albums 'Moving Waves', 'Focus 3' and 'Hamburger Concerto', the iconic Dutch music masters are back with their tenth album, which is guaranteed to please their legions of fans!
After a comeback in the early 2000's, which resulted in the well-received albums 'Focus 8' and 'Focus 9', the band regrouped with a fantastic new line-up. Along with Thijs van Leer on vocals, flute and keyboards, back on the drums is famed Focus drummer Pierre van der Linden, who joined the group on their second album 'Moving Waves' in 1972. Internationally renowned for his rhythmic skills, Pierre remains a defining factor in the Focus sound. Bassist Bobby Jacobs, who comes from a well-acclaimed Dutch musical family and guitarist Menno Gootjes, who participated in Focus at an earlier stage, completes the band's current line-up. Recently, Focus's biggest hit "Hocus Pocus" was used in a 4-minute Nike commercial before the World Cup broadcast. Focus music can be regularly heard on Top Gear and Saxondale TV.
A new Focus era has arrived! There is a rejuvenated passion in the new compositions that adorn the new album 'Focus X', which features a full scale Roger Dean painting on the cover. Says Thijs van Leer, who holds the distinction of being the first ever knighted musician in Holland, "It's a thrill to have finally completed 'Focus X'; we are all ecstatic and looking forward to playing the new material on the forthcoming Focus X Tour."
Focus X UK tour dates:
November 08 – Opera House – Buxton
November 09 – Town Hall – Hessle
November 10 – The Ferry – Glasgow
November 11 – Bridge Trades Club – Hebden
November 13 – Robin 2 – Wolverhampton
November 14 – The Brindley – Runcorn
November 15 – Birdwell – Barnsley
November 16 – Trading Boundaries – Fletching
November 17 – The Wharf – Tavistock
November 18 – Boom Boom Club – Sutton
November 19 – The Stables – Milton Keynes
November 20 – Beaverwood Club - Chislehurst
Title: 'Focus X'
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Label: East World Recordings.
Focus X website: http://www.focus10.net/


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Makeup Storage and Organization
So as you have seen over the past 7 months...my makeup collection has astronomically multiplied, lol. I have a thing about organization...things need to be in their place or I start to get a bit ansy. I do have my messy moments at points (like when you're picking an outfit for the club, and you try on a million things and everything is left abandoned on your bed and floor waiting to be picked up days later, lol) but essentially I go on cleaning and organizing sprees like I did the other day to 3 in the morning!
My makeup is stored in metal drawers, my traincase, and my linen closet. My linen closet was about to burst! I had two sterilite drawers and boxes of random products. I knew it was time for a clean sweep!
So a few weeks ago, I went to wal-mart and browsed their storage sections and came back with a few ideas.
Originally, I had bought these two pullout drawers from Bed, Bath and Beyond. I think it was on sale 2 for $30. I stack them on top of each other to save space. I think they're supposed to go under your sink for organization but I keep them on the counter for easy reach. I've been using these for the past few months and they're great! When I have clients come over for makeup...it makes me feel more professional having these lil things. I love them...but they were starting to overflow. Even the top of the drawers were being used to house brushes, my lip glosses, and random eyeshadows I've been favoring.
Here's a before:
On the top I store my foundation, blush, and eyeshadow palettes.
On the bottom I store my skincare, lip pencils, eye pencils, eyebrow stuff, and the smaller things.
Now my linen closet...it was starting to get a hot mess. Not only do I use it to store makeup, but I put towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and jewelry in there as well. I also hang my brush apron on the door knob. You never knew when something was going to fall off the shelf and stub your big toe.
Here are some before pics:
My goal was to have the counter as clear as possible. And I wanted the metal drawers to be reorganized as well as the linen closet. It was feng shui for my makeup station. So I definitely used more plastic containers and drawers to help me out with this.
So here are the after shots:
You might not be able to tell...but I moved a lot of items around. I put a lot of things in those clear pencil bags I showed you guys earlier in my traincase video. I also moved all my powder compacts and MSFs/Bronzers into a rectangular drawer organizer and put it on top of the drawers...they fit perfectly into it and keeps super organized.
Doesn't the closet look a hundred times better? I moved my toilets and toilet paper to the top so the middle drawers within reach all had makeup. I added an extra set of drawers and bought a big plastic case to hold all my falsies. I also added a wire shelf to create two levels to store some of my jewelry.
I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I love how I came up with this idea, lol. This is a $7 over the door plastic shoe holder. It has clear slots and about 22 pockets for me to hold everything. I don't put makeup in here, but more so supplies. It has everything from q-tips, sponges, mixing mediums, moisturizers, makeup wipes, label maker, empty 5 grame containers...all in easy to see clear pockets. This makes it so much easier for me to find items and return them back to their place quickly. Love it! My makeup clients (the girls mainly) love it too!
So today I'm off to do Atlanta Fashion week...i have to be at the Georgia World Congress Center at 1pm to start...so I had to take a half day off of work. It should be interesting! I'm going to try and film some footage to show you all. Saturday I'm doing a mother daughter photoshoot of a good friend of mine. Sunday another photoshoot with this really great male model...busy busy busy!
Hope you guys have a fab weekend!